Meroitic

extinct language that was spoken in Meroë and the Sudan during the Meroitic period, from 300 BC until about 400 AD
Intangible dead_language Q13366
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Meroitic

Summary

Meroitic is a dead language[1]. Meroitic draws 269 Wikipedia views per month (dead_language category, ranking #32 of 160).[2]

Key Facts

  • Meroitic is in the country of Meroë[3].
  • Meroitic is in the country of Egypt[4].
  • Meroitic's image is recorded as Meroitische Inschrift, Meroe 1. Jh. n. Chr., Aegyptisches Museum, Muenchen-1.jpg[5].
  • Meroitic's instance of is recorded as dead language[6].
  • Meroitic's instance of is recorded as ancient language[7].
  • Meroitic's ISO 639-3 code is recorded as xmr[8].
  • Meroitic's IdRef ID is recorded as 027360946[9].
  • Meroitic's subclass of is recorded as Eastern Sudanic[10].
  • Meroitic's writing system is recorded as Meroitic script[11].
  • Meroitic's IETF language tag is recorded as xmr[12].
  • Meroitic was dissolved in +0400-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Meroitic's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02sbpx[14].
  • Meroitic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Meroitic language[15].
  • Meroitic's Glottolog code is recorded as mero1237[16].
  • Meroitic's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Meroitic-language[17].
  • Meroitic's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/XMR[18].
  • Meroitic's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2205944[19].
  • Meroitic's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtq897autfNk[20].
  • Meroitic's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294925341[21].
  • Meroitic's schematic is recorded as Meroitic.png[22].
  • Meroitic's KBpedia ID is recorded as MeroiticLanguage[23].
  • Meroitic's Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID is recorded as S4SLR4HKWRCOXPZ32XG2QILYIA[24].

Why It Matters

Meroitic draws 269 Wikipedia views per month (dead_language category, ranking #32 of 160).[2] Meroitic has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Meroitic is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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